Main content
Sorry, this episode is not currently available

Edwyn Collins and PopMaster

Edwyn Collins chooses the Tracks of My Years with music from Simon & Garfunkel and Velvet Underground. There's the daily love song and more from PopMaster.

Edwyn Collins, Scottish singer-songwriter and record producer, chooses the Tracks of My Years with music from Simon & Garfunkel and Velvet Underground. Edwyn was the lead singer for the 1980's post-punk band Orange Juice, which he co-founded. Following the group's split in 1985, Edwyn embarked on a solo career and his 1995 single "A Girl Like You" was a worldwide hit. In February 2005 he was hospitalised following two cerebral haemorrhages which resulted in aphasia, and he subsequently underwent a month long rehabilitation period. Edwyn resumed his musical career in 2007. A documentary film on his recovery, titled "The Possibilities Are Endless", was released in 2014.

Edwyn co-founded the indie record label Postcard Records and co-founded a second label, Analogue Enhanced Digital, in 2011. He has also worked as an illustrator, television actor, television producer and record producer. He won an Ivor Novello Award, the Ivor Inspiration Award, in 2009. This month Edwyn announced details on the release of "I Guess We Were Young", the latest track from his ninth solo album, "Badbea", which was released on his own label, AED, earlier this year. His forthcoming tour "Hide The Biscuits...It's Edwyn Collins Outside Tour" begins on 28th August and ends mid September.

Ken also has the daily love song, record and album of the week plus another round of PopMaster. If you'd like to get in touch with the show email Ken.Bruce@bbc.co.uk

2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Tue 20 Aug 2019 09:30

Music Played

  • Barry White

    Let The Music Play

    • Barry White - The Collection.
    • Mercury.
  • Kygo & Whitney Houston

    Higher Love

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA Records.
  • Talk Talk

    It's My Life

    • More Greatest Hits Of 80's (Various).
    • Disky.
  • Toni Braxton

    Un-Break My Heart

    • Toni Braxton - Secrets.
    • Laface.
  • Record of the Week

    • Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

      This Is The Place

      • This Is The Place.
      • Sour Mash Records.
  • New Radicals

    Get What You Give

    • (CD Single).
    • MCA.
  • Eurythmics

    There Must Be An Angel (Playing With My Heart)

    • The Female Touch 2 (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.
  • Ingrid Michaelson

    Young And In Love

    • Stranger Songs.
    • Cabin 24 Records.
  • Coldplay & Big Sean

    Miracles (Someone Special)

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.
  • Captain & Tennille

    Do That To Me One More Time

    • Captain & Tennille - Scrapbook.
    • Spectrum.
  • 尝脡翱狈

    Falling

    • 尝脡翱狈.
    • 尝脡翱狈 Recordings.
  • Phil Lynott

    King's Call

    • Thin Lizzy: Greatest Hits CD2.
    • Universal Music TV.
    • 14.
  • Don Henley

    New York Minute

    • The End Of The Innocence.
    • Geffen.
  • Sheryl Crow

    Prove You Wrong (feat. Stevie Nicks & Maren Morris)

    • Threads.
    • Big Machine Records.
  • The Killers

    When You Were Young

    • (CD Single).
    • Mercury.
  • Emeli Sand茅

    Shine

    • Real Life.
    • Virgin.
  • Red Box

    Lean On Me

    • Red Box - The Circle & The Square.
    • Sire.
  • The Goo Goo Dolls

    Indestructible

    • Miracle Pill.
    • Warner Music.
  • Album of the Week

    • Bruce Springsteen

      Prove It All Night

      • Darkness On The Edge Of Town.
      • CBS.
  • Sara Bareilles

    Love Song

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 1.
  • Friendly Fires

    Silhouettes

    • Silhouettes.
    • Polydor.
  • Tracks of My Years

    • The Velvet Underground

      Sunday Morning

      • The Velvet Underground & Nico.
      • VERVE.
    • Simon & Garfunkel

      America

      • The Definitive Simon & Garfunkel.
      • Columbia.
  • Dido

    Friends

    • Still On My Mind.
    • BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd..
  • Wings

    Listen To What The Man Said

    • The 7" Singles Box.
    • MPL.

Broadcast

  • Tue 20 Aug 2019 09:30